https://wefreedom.land/freedom-school daily 0.75 2023-08-23 https://wefreedom.land/freedom-school/virtual-liberatory-orientation-to-the-land-at-a-studio-in-the-woods-bipoc-affinity-space monthly 0.5 2023-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/d8c3259f-6913-4e1c-a0dd-c910184a87b3/BIPOC+Liberatory+Land+Orientation+2023+%281%29.png FREEDOM SCHOOL - VIRTUAL Liberatory Orientation to the Land: BIPOC Affinity Space - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://wefreedom.land/freedom-school/a-liberatory-orientation-to-the-land-at-a-studio-in-the-woods-bipoc-affinity-space monthly 0.5 2023-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/7504d557-4bce-4317-86e1-cb7bde93ee4e/BIPOC+Liberatory+Land+Orientation+2023.png FREEDOM SCHOOL - A Liberatory Orientation to the Land at A Studio In The Woods: BIPOC Affinity Space - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://wefreedom.land/freedom-school/creatrix-praxis-space monthly 0.5 2021-07-11 https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories daily 0.75 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/acc28a15-6db8-4075-893e-e9dc9c284469/Color+Copy+of+QTPOC+SOUL+SANGHA+FB.png https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/a-liberatory-love-letter-from-jo-botelho monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/a-liberatory-love-letter-from-teena-lewis monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/3fad7623-5fca-458f-a894-03821674f7cf/Teena+Lewis_headshot.png Gathering Stories - a Liberatory Love letter from Teena Lewis, Family Values @ Work - Teena Lewis Instructional Designer and Documentarian, Family Values @ Work Teena Lewis is a leader in the field of wellbeing in entrepreneurship and performance-based learning design. She has been speaking, training, and developing curricula that centers care and integrates wellbeing principles into business systems since 2015. Teena opened her first business, a fitness training company, at the age of 25. Before founding her online training company, she was principal of an integrative healing arts studio and a wellness educator. She has been coaching visionary entrepreneurs since 2006. In 2017, she spearheaded a multinational (US, EU, Australia, Canada) business summit with 8 speakers over 3 days, resulting in sales of her highest grossing program, Sacred Client Attraction. Her clients have transformed their relationship to money, work and their own well-being. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Science from California State University, with advanced studies in mindful leadership, feminist business principles, human-centered design, and the healing arts. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she enjoys long walks in the forest with her husband and 90 year old mother, while dreaming of building equitable economic systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/59f78014-5f8e-48dc-bdc1-5f0b29026935/Freedomland+Reflection+%281%29.png Gathering Stories - a Liberatory Love letter from Teena Lewis, Family Values @ Work - Make it stand out “a collage expressing the many ways that I have shifted because of my experience in the cohort” —Teena Lewis https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/world-building-from-within-and-other-poetic-reflections-with-zen-guide-zochi monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/9f9bc962-568f-47db-81b0-6897cc8a6ebe/IMG_1061.jpg Gathering Stories - World building from Within.. poetics with cohort guide, zochi - Alonzo “Zochi” Young we, he, him | Founder, Tenesu FREEDOM LAND’s Mindfulness & Healing Justice Guide Alonzo “Zochi” Young is a pioneer, master teacher, consultant, author, and embodied trauma informed/healing-centered facilitator. For over two decades, he sought answers to the question, “How do we evolve well?” Through observation, study, and intense examination of various cultures and healing modalities, definitive answers seemed elusive until he examined a key obstacle: the infrastructure and framework of imperialism and colonialism. He realized that holistic healing is almost impossible in harmful conditions and environments. At best, we can provide triage. Our communities need safe spaces and infrastructure that reflect their sensibilities to heal; otherwise, efforts become akin to triage on a battlefield, where we are merely patched up and sent them back to face the same micro-aggressions, stressors, and traumas. We need environments where we can lay down our burdens and recognize the armor and baggage we carry that keep us in a continuous state of stress and trauma. These legacy environments require a major shift away from invisible, weighted conditions that strip away our humanity and create division and separation. Yes, we are resilient people, but there is a cost. With this understanding, Zochi began forming a strategic plan, which involved moving to Africa and reviewing and modifying his framework of teaching and being. This created a paradigm shift toward a more integrative and interdisciplinary process of teaching and learning. Thus is the origin story of Tenesu! And the vision for creating conditions for true healing to occur. https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/a-liberatory-love-letter-from-rev-reimoku-g-smith monthly 0.5 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/6d92e9d7-87f4-45f3-b4ad-eab585db5da7/IMG_1059.jpg Gathering Stories - a Liberatory Love letter from Rev. Reimoku G. Smith - Rev. Reimoku Gregory Smith he/ him/ his | Zen Buddhist Priest K.I.N.G.S.’ Culture - Ministry of the Divine Masculine (KC) email: reimokubodhi@gmail.com Rev. Reimoku Gregory Smith, affectionately known as Brother Reimoku, is a novice Soto Zen Buddhist priest and visionary servant leader whose ministry bridges contemplative practice, Shadow Work®, and healing justice. Formed in the rigorous tradition of Zen Buddhism, Brother Reimoku’s ordination represents not only a deep commitment to inner liberation but also a vow to serve the collective healing of all beings through wise and compassionate action. A devoted advocate for the sacredness of all life, Brother Reimoku serves individuals and communities at the spiritual, emotional, and somatic levels. He walks alongside those impacted by systemic injustice—including those on death row—as a guide and spiritual counselor, offering witness, dignity, and practices that support liberation even under conditions of extreme confinement. Brother Reimoku is also a self-mastery and embodied leadership coach, specializing in emotional intelligence, conscious communication, and Shadow Work® (in which he is currently training toward licensure). He is a proud initiate of the Mankind Project, through which he crossed a threshold into mature manhood and intentional brotherhood in February 2015. Out of that rite of passage, he founded K.I.N.G.S.’ Culture – Ministry of the Divine Masculine, a sacred brotherhood, liberationist movement, and self-mastery school that equips Black boys and men with the tools, mentorship, and rites of passage they need to grow into emotionally intelligent, economically empowered, and spiritually grounded leaders who create strong families and communities. Whether in meditation halls, prison cells, or sacred healing circles, Brother Reimoku shows up as a bridge between traditions—honoring his Zen Buddhist lineage, Afro-indigenous wisdom traditions, and the Way of the Divine Masculine, all of which inform his approach to advocating for systemic transformation. His work calls faith leaders to reclaim their prophetic role in resisting violence in all its forms, including state-sanctioned execution. https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/aalterity-a-collage-of-mississippi-medicine-amp-the-wisdom-of-surrender-by-nana-kumi monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/ac42b377-0ae2-4cbf-82a8-b159c8d97c1f/image3.jpeg Gathering Stories - AALTERITY. collaging Mississippi medicine & the wisdom of surrender with apprentice, Nana Kumi Nana Kumi (she/her) Featured Apprentice for FREEDOM LAND’s Mindfulness & Healing Justice Cohort Instagram: @nanakumiart x @gholdenalchemy website: nanakumi.art Nana Kumi is a queer black southern artist, emerging filmmaker, spiritual herbalist, and land steward from Natchez, Mississippi. Her visual work translates the language of plants, visions, and dreams into naturalist and afro-surrealist landscapes as activation sites for re-remembering. Nana completes her work through several mediums: analog photography, film, collective narrative, and installation, weaving together Black American Southern traditions and West African spiritual lineages to create containers for rest, co-dreaming, and radical imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/f236f8db-9125-46fe-9b53-c75d578a882e/nanakumiaalterity.jpeg Gathering Stories - AALTERITY. collaging Mississippi medicine & the wisdom of surrender with apprentice, Nana Kumi - Make it stand out AALTERITY. A photographic collage using analogue images taken in Utica, Mississippi. The collage features images of Nana in different prayer gestures as well as sites on the land that invoke the medicine of rural Mississippi. This offering was constructed as a visual alter to the medicine I experienced in the circle: natural immersion. Rural places often offer the deep presence and slowness the circle offered. https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/change-one-thing-change-everything-portia-shepherd-reflects monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/altar-reflections-amp-visioning-with-rose-m-hammock monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1754342686630-AQH272DV3PVB7SX8POWG/Rose_Hammock_Redbud_Resource_Group.jpg Gathering Stories - Altar Reflections & Liberatory Visions with Rose M. Hammock, Redbud Resource Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1754342686642-2MN3IANERS2TUDIZQP8H/Rose_Hammock_Redbud_Resource_Group+copy.jpg Gathering Stories - Altar Reflections & Liberatory Visions with Rose M. Hammock, Redbud Resource Group https://wefreedom.land/gatheringstories/a-liberatory-love-letter-from-trelasa-baratta monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/c58e92fd-207e-44d4-bd6d-d374b2c1ff8c/Tree+Headshot+2022.jpg Gathering Stories - a Liberatory Love letter from Trelasa Baratta, Redbud Resource Group - Trelasa Baratta Program Manager/ Education Specialist, Redbud Resource Group Trelasa Baratta is a proud member of the Middletown Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians and currently serves as Program Manager at Redbud Resource Group, where she leads initiatives that strengthen Tribal capacity and build bridges between Native and non-Native communities. With a BA in Sociology from Chico State and an MA.Ed. from Sonoma State University, her work is grounded in both educational theory and community-based practice. Trelasa’s global experiences, from anthropological research in Uppsala, Sweden, to teaching English in rural Spain, inform her commitment to culturally sustaining education. At Redbud, she has authored two comprehensive curricular units: Native Perspectives, Everyday Lessons, a 4th-grade curriculum that Indigenizes elementary instruction, and Weaving the Future, Confronting the Past, a high school unit addressing the California Indian Genocide through a lens of cultural healing and resilience. As Program Manager, Trelasa supports multi-partner projects that center Tribal leadership, environmental justice, and community storytelling, always guided by relationships, reciprocity, and a deep love for her homeland. https://wefreedom.land/worldbuilders-cohort daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/0b7f8fe6-4ab2-4379-acfb-eafbeba8238c/FREEDOM+LAND+COHORT+HEADING+2024+%282%29.png WORLDBUILDERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625711407745-2YZC8BOGBYODVYHTQDYX/A+LIVING+CURRICULUM+BANNER.png WORLDBUILDERS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://wefreedom.land/freedom-land daily 1.0 2024-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625944814562-IVXGP0UUF1VZRSULENBF/Freedom+Land+poster+for+website+update.png FREEDOM LAND art by ChE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625943520417-0Z9P1OZ8SPJCKASKATVA/breaking+the+mold+2.jpg FREEDOM LAND - What we offer Our core offerings include: LIBERATORY COACHING Somatic ancestral healing Decolonial praxis Transforming oppression Leadership development LIBERATORY CONSULTING Circle facilitation DEIA+Justice audits Transforming oppression training Mediation Program design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1631062165150-9I578MWIJ5IANDEUJIQT/IMG_3332.jpg FREEDOM LAND - LIBERATORY RITES-OF-PASSAGES DEIA+J sacred strategic planning Midwifing organizational rebirth Equitable restructuring LIBERATORY PRAXIS SPACES Community Freedom Schools for unpacking oppression and embodying liberation A BIENNIAL COHORT A biennial Cohort for QTBIPOC Worldbuilders to immerse for two years in the transdisciplinary, Intersectional Justice framework—Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625943047210-Q78JWCP3WRT8FCRTULCD/ALTAR+HEADER+1.jpg FREEDOM LAND - Our embodied commitment We embody a commitment to alchemizing transgenerational impacts of oppression and stewarding liberatory worlds into being. We root in the healing technologies of our ancestors to decolonize the way we work, powerfully live our Freedom dreams, and cultivate movements of radical imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625893202670-Y77VRAD032S0N3YKZML7/AILP+BANNER+1.png FREEDOM LAND art by ChE Our approach We utilize a transdisciplinary Intersectional Justice approach known as: Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis (AILP)—an ancestrally-rooted equity organizing framework emerging from the deep knowing that just as Black is The Beginning, so too does healing transectional anti-Blackness and Indigeneity uproot interlocking systems of oppression. We ground Intersectional Justice in the body through ancestral technologies of circle-based facilitation, somatic ritual, socially-engaged artmaking, intergenerational storytelling, and deepening relationship with the land. https://wefreedom.land/consulting daily 0.75 2021-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621052759083-JRVLFPESXSXCJD7JM5OS/Copy+of+AFRO-INDIGENOUS+LIBERATORY+PRACTICE.jpg CONSULTING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625966002010-4VLGH1LST66NSWFUJRQV/P1020556.jpg CONSULTING - F R E E D O M L A N D brings the sacred back into the way we work, approaching strategic planning as a ritual process of decolonization that centers the cultural epistemologies, healing technologies, and embodied wisdom of our ancestors. We see the moment when an organization is ready to embark on a strategic planning process as the beginning of a rites-of-passage journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625963894937-GNPZIB8ZXAZ2MI9CQOTT/DAC_0136.jpg CONSULTING - We partner with value-based organizations to offer Liberatory Consulting services to achieve more equity, intersectional justice, and liberation that include: Circle facilitation Mediation Processes Land-responsive retreats Content-based workshops & trainings (see topics below) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) audits Strategic Planning (see rites-of-passages section) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621052038598-WNKWPHKYTRZOU00BAMXW/breaking+the+mold+2.jpg CONSULTING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625964650853-ZBQ9ABRJLHWTUPN15ITJ/P1020231.jpg CONSULTING - To transform global oppression we must transform ourselves. Our approach to coaching is rooted in the liberatory praxis and cosmologies of our ancestors that locate the individual as part of an interdependent collective whole. We address the transgenerational harm of heteropatriarchal-white-supremacist-capitalism we are all steeped in by decolonizing the way we live, work, and organize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621050496265-SGNM0B1RE4OD0M7FCXN5/vision+and+justice+altar.JPG CONSULTING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621049970580-D79SJHH4K58Y3TSK3ZOX/Freedom+Land+consulting+email+header+%281%29.png CONSULTING - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625963359976-EVZPASX1411BMHD5981U/IMG_3346.jpg CONSULTING - TOPICS INCLUDE: Unpacking toxic white supremacy Practicing reparations and community resourcing Intersectionality Anti-racism Anti-oppression Decolonial praxis Alternatives to ableism Healing Justice Gender Justice Racial Justice Conflict Transformation & Community Accountability Queer Black & Indigenous Feminism Indigenous Ecology Afro-Indigenous Futurism Liberatory praxis & pedagogy Somatic and arts-integrated curricula development https://wefreedom.land/who-we-are daily 0.75 2025-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621004904137-69Z2SX9S9LMZ05TJKHDG/NOLA_190418_NETFLIX_TOTC_ChEElizabeth_1646.jpg WHO WE ARE - ChE or Xé (they/ them) ChE or Xé is a proudly Indigequeer Trans Gender-Nonbinary Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Creatrix born in the Uto-Aztecan, Kumiai coastal lands of Oceanside, California; currently living in New Orleans, Indigenous Bulbancha lands of Turtle Island, Gulf South. ChE embodies a commitment to steward the healing medicine of their ancestors, grow structures of Intersectional Justice and Interdependence with the land to conjure worlds of transgenerational Freedom. They are an honored Fellow Awardee with Southerner’s on New Ground: The Lorde’s Werq (2019-2020), a MAP Fund Finalist (2020), Eva Yaa Asantewaa Queer Art Grant Finalist (2019), Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow (2017-2018), and Brown University’s Center for Slavery & Justice Center: Black Spatial Relics, Heimark Artist-In-Residence (2016-2017). ChE has over a decade of consulting experience in organizational development, leadership training, and DEIA+J (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Justice). They have designed, fundraised, and implemented arts, culture, and political education programs; led local and national Intersectional Justice campaigns; equity audits and strategic planning processes; and directed large-scale multi-year political art interventions and collective rituals. All that they steward embodies an ethos of playful experimentation, reverence of land, and the radical spirit of Queer Black Feminist Thought. ChE embodies their ancestors’ wildest dreams through their role as Founding Liberatory Consultant of F R E E D O M L A N D (f. 2019) offering Liberatory Coaching and Consulting services; land-responsive retreats; Freedom Schools; multi-year rites-of-passage programs, and a biennial cohort where QTGNC2-S+ Legacy Leaders-of-Color immerse for two years in the transdisciplinary Intersectional Justice framework, Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis. ChE is the Founding Liberatory Coach for The Underground Railroad: Liberatory Coaching for Creative Radicals of Color (f. 2017) a collective coaching program that supports emerging LGBTQ+Leaders of Color to reconnect to the creative tools of their ancestors charting a path to personal freedom and social change. They were the co-host of the Black Girl Dangerous podcast Spirit Medicine (2016-2017) providing accessible conversations, tools and rituals that support the healing, wellness and liberation of QTBIPOC. A lifelong practitioner of Black Contemplative and Embodied Traditions, ChE launched QT+POC Soul Sangha in 2019, offering culturally-responsive Yoga, Afro-Indigenous somatic ritual, and meditation for liberation. As an interdisciplinary artist, ChE expands identity and genre with mixed media painting, Afro-Indigenous Contemporary Dance, ancestor reverence, storytelling circles, vocal composition, immersive installation, and land-based community rituals that span multiple years. ChE is currently developing The People Can Fly—a cross-regional living folktellin’ unfolding through a decade of land-responsive performance rituals and community programs that bring the cultural praxis, sacred artforms, and medicine traditions of gender-expansive Black+Indigenous peoples of the Gulf South to the Center of national movement-building and dreaming. Follow ChE’s work at http://che-art.life/ (personal site/ art portfolio) and https://wefreedom.land/ (liberatory consulting platform). https://wefreedom.land/our-origin-story daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://wefreedom.land/afroindigenous-liberatory-praxis daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625726765311-5KV1M1TGOY8UJIKWA7CO/AILP+BANNER+1.png OUR APPROACH - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1621031386740-28T9V11SUMY2HV4KGX8F/IMG_3332.jpg OUR APPROACH - Make it stand out Community altar created for a Liberatory Immersion as part of a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Audit with CounterPulse staff (2019-2020) https://wefreedom.land/connect daily 0.75 2021-07-12 https://wefreedom.land/mindfulness-and-healing-justice daily 0.75 2025-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f90d851cea33040da9c04a6/1625711407745-2YZC8BOGBYODVYHTQDYX/A+LIVING+CURRICULUM+BANNER.png MINDFULNESS & HEALING JUSTICE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.